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Interesting that the process needed you to repost it for the mods to boost it. Seems like they could have just fiddled with it without you having to manually i

• eterm 11y ago
  Also interesting that HN is moving (has moved?) toward a curated site. HN asks for reposts of things they deem good. They also adjust downward the score of many articles. (As can be seen through large jumps on sites that track article ranks, some of which will be automatic from the flamewar detector, some of which is likely manual.). It seems like we're reaching a "web 3.0" which uses users to do the expensive bit of an intial sift but then the site admins edit/curate that into their own vision. We're moving away from user driven content, back to curated content with user-sourcing.
  • mmahemoff 11y ago
    Web 3 or not, I'd see it as an extension of user sourcing, where users have various levels of moderation powers. I would guess these HN emails (I also received one recently and duly reposted) are triggered by some count of admins voting up unloved posts, maybe from a list filtered by a user karma threshold. As Jeff Atwood says about StackOverflow, it should be possible for a sufficiently privileged user to do just about anything staff can do. Not really a new concept as /. had the notion of metamoderation, but a richer model with multiple levels of user.
  • icebraining 11y ago
    So Slashdot has survived long enough to be on the vanguard again!